The interesting thing about Bernanke is not that he’s powerful or evil but that he’s apparently incompetent.  All these guys stand around on the deck of a sinking ship applauding one another.

This just another piece of fecal matter that I hope steps out in
front of a bus sometime TODAY!

FRTothus: “The people are betrayed daily, and at every turn.”

Agreed.  Great list of quotes - says it all!

The people are betrayed daily, and at every turn. 

“[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that’s their enemy.”
(Michael Parenti)

“The country is governed for the richest, for the corporation, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the expoiters.”
(Helen Keller)

“Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM.”
(John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man)

“The financial system ... has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of ... a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.” (Representative Charles A. Lindberg (R-MN))

“We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board… This evil institution has impoverished .. the people of the United States ... and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through ... the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.” (Representative Louis T. McFadden (R-TX))

“I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.” (Thomas Jefferson)

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.”  (James Madison)

“Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the slick of a pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, [but] this would be a better and happier world to live in.
But if you want to continue as the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of [your own] slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit.”  (Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England)

“The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the [Federal] Reserve System than before…”
(Milton Friedman)

“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933.”  (Milton Friedman)